Le Figaro Bordeaux
The tag, made on Christmas Day, seems far from trivial.
In the small village of 146 souls of Saint-Pantaly-d'Excideuil in Dordogne, an ordeal has displayed the tag
"Islam"
, written with a black bomb along its cross, since December 24.
The hands that damaged this Catholic oratory also took care to include a crescent moon, the emblem of Muslim believers.
“It’s despicable, sickening, childish... And it’s a reflection of today’s society. Everyone laughs at everything. I am ignoring the sacrilege and I am not going to engage in hateful speech, but those who wrote this are imbeciles who do not respect the religion of our ancestors,”
laments Quentin Marty, the owner of the land where this ordeal was raised. in the 1800s. The Catholic farmer and elected official of the commune, aware that this Christian heritage has been in this state for two months, assures that he intends to clean it and file a complaint, but explains that he has “not
yet found five minutes”
to do it.
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SOS Calvary
Alerted by a local resident
“shocked”
by this degradation of religious property, the SOS Calvaires association, recognized as being of general interest, published a photograph of it on social networks on Thursday.
Since then, goodwill offering to clean it has been pouring in.
“We try not to report these damages too often because it can seem tearful,”
explains Alexandre Caillé, the general director of SOS Calvaires.
But the ordeals are already suffering the work of time and neglect, it is painful to see them vandalized.
And this one has been tagged since December!”
To restore this ordeal without damaging either the stone or its cullet, it would be necessary to use a special and expensive product.
A project that the association plans to take on if the owner accepts it.
When contacted, the national gendarmerie declared that it had not taken up the matter for the moment because no complaint had been filed by Quentin Marty.
The town hall of Saint-Pantaly-d'Excideuil refuses to get involved on the grounds that the tagged Catholic cross stands on private property.